Chancellor’s Scholar Award

● Award Amount: $2,500
● Qualifications: Incoming freshmen students graduating
from a high school who are residents of Missouri or the
Kansas counties of Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami or
Wyandotte. Top 10% of high school class OR ACT composite
score of 23 or above. Full-time enrollment. Not
available for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy or
conservatory. Home-schooled and GED students may also
qualify if a first-time college student.

Curator’s Scholar Award

● Award Amount: $3,500
● Qualifications: Incoming freshmen students from
Missouri graduating from a Missouri high school. Top 5%
high school class ranking AND ACT score of 28 or above.
Full-time enrollment. Not available for medicine,
conservatory or pharmacy (professional-level students)

Metro Kansas City, MO High School Award

● Award Amount: $1,000
● Qualifications: Incoming freshmen students who are
graduates of one of the following high schools:
Northeast, Southeast, East, Westport, Central, Paseo,
Bishop Hogan, Alta Vista, Southwest, Lincoln College
Prep, Imagine Renaissance Academy or University Academy.
Full-time.

UMKC Undergraduate Award

● Award Amount: $1,500
● Qualifications: Incoming freshmen
students graduating from a high school
who are residents of Missouri or the
Kansas counties of Johnson, Leavenworth,
Miami or Wyandotte. Top 25 percent of
high school class. Full-time. Not
available for medicine, dentistry,
pharmacy or conservatory. Home-schooled
and GED students may also qualify if a
first-time college student.

Chancellor’s Transfer Award

● Award Amount: $2,000; Plus Non-Resident Fee
Differential
● Qualifications: Transfer students from any community
college or four year institution. Must have completed 40
transferrable credit hours before attending UMKC. 3.0
cumulative GPA in all college work attempted. Full-time
enrollment. Must be working on First Bachelor’s Degree.

Architecture, Urban Planning + Design

CFM Architecture, Urban Planning + Design Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Full-time undergraduate student studying Architecture or Urban Planning and Design who graduated from high school and in the Kansas City area and demonstrates financial need.

Joy D. Swallow Scholarship Fund

• Award Amount: Varies
• Qualifications: To celebrate excellence in design within the following disciplines: architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning + design. Preference is given to a first generation college student who may demonstrate financial need. ×

Art & Art History

Advertising Artist Guild Grant

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Full-time student majoring in Art. Preference given to junior, senior or graduate student majoring in studio art.
● Submission: Applicants must submit a digital CD portfolio of 15 jpeg images showing recent artwork. Video or animation projects can be included as a self-contained QuickTime movie. Students must also submit a numbered image list that refers to each digital image and includes the title, medium, size, and year for each piece.

George Ehrlich Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate or graduate student majoring in Art History.
● Submission: Applicants will need to submit what they consider to be their best art history paper, preferably 10 pages or less (but may be longer, up to 15 pages, plus images).

Geraldine E. Fowle Art History Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate or graduate student majoring in Art History.
● Submission: Applicants will need to submit what they consider to be their best art history paper, preferably 10 pages or less (but may be longer, up to 15 pages, plus images).

John Gutowski Memorial Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Full-time student majoring in Art. Preference given to junior, senior or graduate student majoring in studio art.
● Submission: Applicants must submit a digital CD portfolio of 15 jpeg images showing recent artwork. Video or animation projects can be included as a self-contained QuickTime movie. Students must also submit a numbered image list that refers to each digital image and includes the title, medium, size, and year for each piece.
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James and Neoma Kilway Scholarship in Chemistry

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Full-time undergraduate student majoring in Chemistry. Preference given to students with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and who demonstrate financial need.

Dr. Aida Nureddin Scholarship in Chemistry

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: students studying in the Department of Chemistry in good academic standing.

Mr. and Mrs. Fong Wu Cheng Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: New or continuing graduate student in Chemistry (excludes non-thesis MS) who demonstrates ability or potential in chemical research.
● Submission: Applicant must submit a letter of nomination from a member of the Department of Chemistry faculty, a complete set of transcripts, a curriculum vitae, and any other supporting documents, such as publications.

Charles Wurrey Honorary Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: undergraduate students with financial need seeking a degree in Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences. Preference shall be given to applicants who maintain a 3.00 GPA.×

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Alvin Brooks Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Full-time undergraduate student majoring in Criminal Justice & Criminology, who is in good academic standing with a minimum GPA of a 2.0. Preference given to students who are first generation college students and who graduated from an accredited Kansas City, Missouri high school or transferred from a Kansas City area community college. The student must demonstrate financial need.
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Communication Studies

The Fred Andrews Jubilee Creative Cinema Fund

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Awards and/or internships for undergraduate or graduate students majoring in Communication Studies with an emphasis in Film and Media Arts.

Walt Bodine Scholarship in Communication Studies

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Communication Studies with an emphasis in TV, Radio, Film, new media forms or community journalism.

Alex and Josephine B. Coleman Scholarship Fund

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Awarded based on ability. A student who has declared a major in Communication Studies and completed at least 60 credit hours by the end of the spring semester, with a UMKC cumulative GPA of at least 3.3

Faye Kircher Public Speaking Award Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Awarded based on performance at the Faye Kircher Public Speaking Competition. Recipients selected by judges.
● Submission: Participants from the current semester’s ComSt 110 courses are selected to participate in the contest. Please contact the Communication Studies Department for more details at 816-235-1337 or by email at "Com-s@umkc.edu.

Carol Koehler Memorial Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies (Internship funding)
● Qualifications: A junior or senior student majoring in Communication Studies who has completed at least 12 credit hours of Communication Studies and has a minimum UMKC cumulative GPA of 3.0. The student is required to enroll in the department’s three-hour internship course during the ensuing academic year.

Michelle LaPointe Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Non-traditional students majoring in Communication Studies who have completed a minimum of 24 credit hours and that demonstrate financial need.

G. Tom Poe Scholarship Fund for Outstanding Achievement in Film and Media Arts

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate student who has declared a major in Communication Studies with an emphasis in Film and Media Arts or with a minor in Film Studies. Preference given to a senior level student who maintains a 3.0 grade point average.

John Scott Shepherd Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate students who have declared a major in Communication Studies with an emphasis in Film and Media Arts.

Debate Scholarships

Ben and Rose Eisenmann Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: A degree-seeking student who is a member of the debate squad.
● Submission: For more information please contact Matt Vega at 816-235-1667 or email him at vegam@umkc.edu.
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Economics

Joe E. Brown Institutional Economics Scholarship

James Crew Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Full-time undergraduate student majoring in Economics. Preference given to students who are majoring in Economics and also have declared a minor in Mathematics and/or Statistics or have an interest in econometric or social discount rate.

Robert L. Greene Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Junior or senior student majoring in Economics. Must demonstrate financial need and have leadership ability and a desire to succeed.

Karen S. Vorst Scholarship in Economics

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: undergraduate students studying economics. Students should be in good academic standing. Preference will be given to junior or first semester senior.

Gene Wagner Honorary Scholarship in Labor Economics

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Full-time undergraduate or graduate students in the Department of Economics. Preference will be given to a student who is studying labor economics and/or who has a history or family background of support or involvement in organized labor.
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Barbara Stork Award for Poetry

Geosciences

ASCE-AEG Scholarship Fund

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Full-time upper level or graduate student majoring in Geology who has at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA. Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Preference given to Missouri & Kansas residents and active members of AEG.
● How to Apply: Please contact the Geosciences department at 816-235-1334 about the application process.

Association of Earth Science Clubs Fund

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate students majoring in Geosciences, Earth Science or Geography.
● How to Apply: Please contact the Geosciences department at 816-235-1334 about the application process.

Dr. Richard J. Gentile Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Students who have completed at least one year at UMKC and 24 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 3.0. The student must also be working on term papers or other work with stratigraphy and geologic field mapping.

Denis Ward Scholarship

History

Jim Falls Honorary Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate students who have declared a major in History, have a minimum UMKC GPA of 3.0, and also demonstrate financial need.

Carla L. Klausner Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Provide Scholarships to support an undergraduate student at the junior or senior level majoring in history with a 3.2 GPA or above that demonstrates financial need.

Lee A. Takats Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Students majoring in History.

The Captain Harry S. Truman Prize

● Award Amount: $500
● Qualifications: A prize given annually for the best research paper, to be written and submitted by an undergraduate or graduate student to the Department of History. The research paper should focus on any aspect of World War I and is preferred to include, when at all possible, research that ties to materials housed at the National World War I Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Philosophy

Dr. George Gale Honorary Scholarship in Philosophy

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate student majoring in Philosophy who demonstrates high academic merit.
● How to Apply: Based on UMKC cumulative GPA. No application is required to qualify.

Theatre

Department of Theatre scholarships are available to full-time students. The Department of Theatre has over 20 scholarships providing financial assistance to their students. All prospective UMKC students are automatically considered for all scholarships, awards, and fellowships during their MFA audition. All graduate and undergraduate level scholarships are chosen by the Theatre Department's Scholarship Committee at UMKC.

There is one scholarship available to both undergraduate and graduate students—The Lee and Nadine Marts Scholarship. A student can apply for the:

Alumni Perseverance Award

Don & Lucille Armacost Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate student(s), who are seeking a degree in the College of Arts & Sciences and demonstrate financial need.

Thomas D. Barr Liberal Arts Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: For undergraduate student(s) who are seeking a degree in the College.

CFM Sustainability Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Candidates need to demonstrate financial need, have graduated from a Kansas City metropolitan area high school and have an academic or volunteer focus on sustainability issues and efforts.

Leo Long/Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Scholarship

Richard McKinizie Memorial Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Fulltime, undergraduate student seeking a degree in any major in the College of Arts and Scholarship Sciences. Preference given to non-traditional students who are above the age of 23 and who are returning to college to finish their degree.

Paseo High School Reunion Scholarship

Pizza 51 Scholarship

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate student majoring in the College of Arts and Sciences with a minimum UMKC GPA of a 3.0 or higher, and demonstrates financial need.* Student must submit an additional one page essay on what common sense means to them.

Norman N. Royall, Jr. Fund

Cheryl A. Smith Scholarship for Gerontology

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Support students in the field of Gerontology.

Linda and Thomas Talbott Scholarship and Leadership Award

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Undergraduate student leader who in their junior or senior year and in majoring in either English or Economics. Student need to be a graduate of the Kansas City metropolitan area high school and have a superior GPA.

James Philip Wahlman Scholarship Award Fund

● Award Amount: Varies
● Qualifications: Pursuing a humanities or social science degree in the College of Arts and Sciences at UMKC. Students must demonstrate financial need and be in good academic standing.

Frank Neal Willis, Jr. Minority Scholarship

LGBTQIA

The LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and ally) Scholarship is designed to support students regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and sex, who are enrolled in any degree program at UMKC, who maintain at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA and who demonstrate support of the LGBTQIA community, either on-campus or off-campus, through significant support, engagement, and/or volunteering. Students must submit an one page essay detailing their past and current support and/or involvement in the LGBTQIA community.

Chancellor’s Non-Resident Award

● Award Amount: Non-Resident Fee Differential
● Qualifications: To be considered for the award students must have the minimum cumulative high school GPA of 2.75 and/or a 24 ACT or a 1090-1120 SAT score.
● How to Apply: The College of Arts & Sciences nominates eligible students for these awards. Nomination does not guarantee an award will be made, as funding is limited each year. If selected for an award, notification will come from the UMKC Financial Aid & Scholarship Office, the UMKC’s International Student Affairs Office (ISAO) or the College’s Scholarship Coordinator. The award is renewable provided the student continues to qualify; undergraduate students must maintain a minimum UMKC cumulative GPA of a 3.0. If you would like to be considered for the award please contact your respective Department or contact the
College's Scholarship Coordinator either can nominate you for the award.
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Chancellor’s Non-Resident Award

● Award Amount: Non-Resident Fee Differential
● Qualifications: To be considered for the award students must have the minimum transfer cumulative GPA of 2.75.
● How to Apply: The College of Arts & Sciences nominates eligible students for these awards. Nomination does not guarantee an award will be made, as funding is limited each year. If selected for an award, notification will come from the UMKC Financial Aid & Scholarship Office, the UMKC’s International Student Affairs Office (ISAO) or the College’s Scholarship Coordinator. The award is renewable provided the student continues to qualify; undergraduate students must maintain a minimum UMKC cumulative GPA of a 3.0. If you would like to be considered for the award please contact your respective Department or contact the
College's Scholarship Coordinator either can nominate you for the award.
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